The Pirate Bay hit by DDOS attack

The Pirate Bay has been experiencing downtime in the last 24 hours after being hit by a Distributed Denial Of Service attack, initiated by someone who tweets as Zeiko Anonymous.

DDoS attacks, which overwhelm a server taking any sites stored on it down, are more commonly used against the websites of big content owners or organisations perceived to be censoring the internet, though file-sharing services are also occasionally targeted too. Zeiko Anonymous has apparently attacked a number of BitTorrent sites in recent days. His or her motivation isn’t clear, though according to Torrentfreak s/he was denied an invite to a private BitTorrent tracker What.cd.

The current operators of the Bay said they were using the enforced down time to do some maintenance. Of course UK web-users accessing the net via a major ISP cannot access The Pirate Bay anyway, unless they know how to circumvent blocks put in place after record industry trade body the BPI won web block injunctions against the controversial file-sharing service.

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